It was a promise neither man would have wanted to keep. The funeral of a Black Watch soldier killed in Afghanistan took a bizarre turn when his best friend arrived in a bright green dress and pink leg warmers to honour a pact that the two of them had made. Private Kevin Elliott and his [...]

Bewildered Korean police, for the first time, are to investigate an elephant on charges of assault on a person. The unprecedented case was reported to the Gwangjin Police Station on Monday in which a 48-year-old woman surnamed Kim claimed to have been hit with large stones, thrown by an elephant, according to police officials yesterday. [...]

Mobile phones may have become ubiquitous in rural areas of India and popular among farmers. But electromagnetic radiation emanating from them may be stunting the growth of agricultural crops and plants, preliminary research has revealed. Studies carried out at Panjab University, Chandigarh, suggest that electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation from cell phones could choke seeds, affect [...]

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His face is the picture of concentration as he painstakingly finishes off Cambodian temple Angkor Wat. And concentration is something Stan Munro certainly doesn’t lack after spending six years building famous landmarks from around the world – using six million toothpicks. The former television presenter used more than 170 litres of glue as he worked [...]

The amazing “Shattering door” by the ingeniously talented Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich is sure to leave your guests engrossed just when they reach out to knock on it. It’s already knocked down. If the shattering door has compelled you to…

We generate so much trash on a daily basis that it wouldn’t be surprising if future generations mistakenly thought that we actually worshipped all the garbage we toss into landfills. That’s the idea behind Salzig Design’s Temple of Trash, a temporary structure built in a Rotterdam, Netherlands port area as part of the 2007 Follydock [...]

For Britain’s struggling fruit farmers, things could be about to go even more pear-shaped… A Chinese farmer has invented baby-shaped pears – and he is planning to export his novel idea over here. Plucky farmer Gao Xianzhang has created 10,000 of the mini marvels this season and he plans to take the fruits of his [...]

Scientists have successfully levitated mice in the laboratory, in an experiment which may help research into space travel. Using powerful magnets, the creatures were held in a zero-gravity like setting inside a tiny canister, where – after a little acclimatisation – they floated around inside their cage. The researchers, working at various American institutes on [...]

Doramad radioactive toothpaste: Agamma spectroscopy analysis did reveal trace quantities of thorium, but the levels are too low to be detected with a simple hand-held survey meter. This story is adapted from the book Alsos, written by Samuel Goudsmit, H. Schuman Inc., New York, 1947. It appeared in the December 1996 issue of the Health [...]